Chepstow’s Coral Welsh Grand National meeting has been rescheduled for Saturday, January 9th, having been cancelled on Sunday due to a waterlogged track.

The fixture has had no luck down the years on the weather front and once more course officials were forced to admit defeat.

Earlier in the week there had been optimism that the prestigious card, which also features the Grade 1 Coral Finale Juvenile Hurdle, would survive but a further downfall overnight from Storm Bella left the course with patches of false ground.

Clerk of the course Libby O’Flaherty inspected at 7.45am but was left with no choice but to call the meeting off.

She said: "It’s so annoying as there’s just one area of false ground down the back straight and I was trying to find a way around it but there just isn’t one."

Limerick’s card on Sunday was also called off due to waterlogging and Monday's meeting there must pass an 8am inspection.

The cancelled Sunday card will be staged on Wednesday, December 30th. Original entries stand with fresh declarations to be made by 10am on Monday. The time of the first race will be at 12.50pm.

However, the Grade 2 Lyons Of Limerick Jaguar Novice Hurdle has been transferred to tomorrow's (Monday) card at Limerick to form an eight-race programme with the time of the first race at 11.55am. The original declarations stand for this race and it will now be run as the second race on the Monday card.